Brazil’s death toll from the new coronavirus surpassed Italy’s to become the third-highest in the world Thursday, as the UN’s secretary-general called for a “people’s vaccine” to stem the pandemic.
The bleak figures from Brazil underlined the grim toll the virus is taking in Latin America, the latest epicenter in the pandemic, even as Europe seeks to reemerge from lockdown — including with a massive new 600-billion-euro ($674-billion) economic stimulus measure announced by the European Central Bank.
Brazil reported a new 24-hour record death toll, bringing the total number killed to more than 34,000.
That is behind only the United States, with more than 108,000 deaths, and Britain, with nearly 40,000. (AFP)
